Week three at the Palmers

  

Jan. 27th we had church and came home with a LOT of snow! It snowed and snowed until we had like a foot of it.  Bryan loves to get out his snowblower so he spent a lot of the afternoon outside.  Stockton really wanted to go with him so I bundled him up and sent him out.  Blake really wanted to help with the new little snow shovel that I bought him.  Bryan was going to go across the street to help the neighbors dig out of the snow so I brought Stock inside.  His face was bright red and he must have been cold but he was so angry with me!  He was screaming "help dad! Help dad!" and hitting the door.  He usually doesn't act like that!  When Bryan came back he took him back outside and he was so happy.  I love how my kids at this age love to be out helping dad. On the way home from my in-laws for Sunday dinner the temple looked so pretty I had to take a picture.  One of my all time favorite memories was Stockton was a tiny new baby and he was awake to eat.  I had the blinds cracked open a little bit and it was snowing.  There is something so peaceful and beautiful about the world when it's snowing.  That moment was so peaceful and I just cuddled my tiny little baby and felt so happy.  I'll never forget that.

When Ty came home from school on Jan. 28th he was excited to play in the snow piles.  He climbed to the top of a big one and Blake thought he could just step onto the snow and sank in it.  He feel forward and got his hands all cold.  He was screaming and carrying on because his hands were cold.  I wonder where he gets the being dramatic from?  Bryan was wrestling with the boys and Brett had to join in the fun.  

 I braved the snow to head to the store with the boys on Jan. 29th.  Brett looked really cute with his hat on.
              My mom came for a visit on Jan. 30th in between snow storms.  She bought the boys angry bird coloring books and they all loved them.  I took the boys to the hobby lobby and got some scrapbook stuff I needed.  I got Stockton this little chick that he has loved ever since.  I used to hop around when you wound it up but it's been loved a little too much.  We called it 'cheep cheep.'

We spent Thursday morning Jan. 31th at my Grandma Jenkins house while my mom was there.  It finally warmed up enough that some of the snow was melting.  I look asleep in the picture below...  It was SO nice to see some blue sky!  I even cracked some of my windows open when I got home for a minute to just get a little bit of fresh air in my house.  I took the picture above in River Heights on my way home from her house.  Stockton was being a little funny all morning but he was running around and being mostly normal. I was downstairs cleaning up when I heard him cry from his crib where he was taking a nap.  I went in there and there was pink throw up ALL OVER EVERYTHING!  All over the walls and his bed.  Yuck!  So I spent the rest of the day cleaning up puke, being puked on, tell him no you can't have a drink because you just threw up his last one. I found  him laying on the couch like this picture above.  Where do boys learn to do that???  The things I've learned about boys since being a mom.

Feb. 1st we hung out at home and Stockton was doing better.  My mom came over in the afternoon and took Blake to the dollar store.  My dishwasher has been the BIGGEST PAIN EVER the last couple of months so I bought a new one.  I had the repair man come out like 10 times I'm not even kidding because it wouldn't quit leaking. I didn't want to pay the 120 bucks + for them to put it in so my father in law said he could help.  Bryan and him were trying to unplug my old one so he turned off the water to it and started to pull the tube off (under the sink) and water started spraying EVERYWHERE! Gallons and gallons of it! Right in his face! He was yelling to Bryan to hurry and shut the water to the house off and he ran downstairs to do it.  If you know the Palmers they tease each other a ton.  Especially their dad.  So he got teased a lot from Bryan about this.  Then after all of that (and a lot of clean up) they pulled the new washer out and it didn't have the hoses and power cord we needed to install it.  So I still don't have a working dishwasher!!  Should have just paid the money and not bothered Bryan's poor dad to help us.  My mom came back over so Bryan and I could go out on a much needed date.  Wish I had a picture of it!  We haven't been out just the two of us since I think our anniversary over a year before.  We went to Oliver Garden and Bryan laughed until he cried about his dad getting sprayed in the face with the water.  I wish we went out more together because with out the stress of juggling the kids Is fun to just hang out with him. 

Feb 2nd I wanted to do something fun so we drove up to Hardware Ranch to see the Elk.  I'm too cheep to pay to ride the sleigh around to get close to them so we just drive up and go to the visitors center. 

Stockton especially liked the animals in the visitors center.  He really loves animals.